By Grand Rapids Anonymous
sunday, august 17, 2025 at 8:57:00 a.m. edt
The Afterlife Mary Tyler Moore Show
Ted Baxter: Murr, I was looking over tonight's stories and you mistyped the word "frogtown" for something else-- maybe, "fogtown?"
Murray Slaughter: You mean, that place where your brain lives, Ted? (audience laughs) No, "frogtown' is an actual area of St. Paul.
Ted: Well, you KNOW I can't read the word, "Frogtown' without...ha ha...laughing hysterically--HAHAHAHAHA.
Lou Grant (running out of his office): That better not be Ted, laughing at "Frogtown."
Ted: I can't help it, Lou--HAHAHAHA.
Lou: Doesn't matter-- W-O-K-E news upper management just dropped the story for their usual reasons.
Mary Richards: Ohhh, Mr. Grant.
Murray: Okay, Ted, here's the replacement story. In five days, it's the anniversary of the birth of the actress who played "Pussy Galore"--Honor Blackman.
Ted: Honor Blackman--don't tell me it's "black history" month AGAIN?
Mary (shaking her head): Ted, you're on in thirty seconds.
Ted: Right--thirty seconds.Thanks, Mary
Murray: Yeah, but his brain has been OFF for decades.
Ted: Good evening, I'm Ted Baxter--with the news. PUSSY GALORE! HAHAHAHA.
Mary: You did that to him on purpose, didn't you, Murray?
Murray: You bet.
--GRA
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Ted Baxter:Do I get a residual for this episode being printed? Mary? It IS your company.
Mary:Sorry Ted,only if 99 more episodes get made,so we can have a syndication deal.
Ted:Gotcha--no chance in hell.
Mary:None.
--GRA
Miss the MTM gang! All gone now except for Murray?
Curious crime stats. St. Paul homicides:
the 2010s: about 17 per year on average
2022: 40
2023: 33
2024: 32
2025: Frogtown story brings the count to only 8 so far
"Sgt. Toy Vixayvong, a police spokesman" interviewed in https://www.twincities.com/2024/12/28/st-paul-homicides-victims-suspects-2024/
Wonder if he's from the Norwegian branch of the Vixayvong family that came to minnesota in a covered wagon in the mid-19th century. Or one of the Vixayvongs with Puritan roots and Mayflower ancestors.
Who i assume is here legally. Bulletin: The jamaican who was on the Old Orchard Beach, Maine police force - and had a Massachusetts driver license (thanks so much, Governor Gomorrah Healey) - has agreed to self-deport. How did he get here in the first place? A one-week visa in 2022 or 2023 and never found his way back to the Caribbean until now. At least it better happen soon, like this week.
GRA:Murray lasted 8 years longer than the ship in his post "MTM Show" gig--"The Love Boat" did.
(google)The Pacific Princess, the ship famously featured in the popular TV series "The Love Boat," was involved in a tragic incident during its journey to a scrapyard for demolition in 2013.
The vessel, which had previously been sold for scrap and renamed MS Pacific, was damaged while entering the port of Aliaga in Turkey and began taking on water in an engine room storage area. Crews attempted to pump out the water, but a build-up of engine exhaust led to toxic gas exposure, resulting in the death of two individuals and injuries to eight others.
The Pacific Princess, originally known as the Sea Venture before being purchased by Princess Cruises in 1975, played a prominent role in the series, which aired from 1977 to 1986. While the show primarily filmed on soundstages, the Pacific Princess and its sister ship, the Island Princess, were used for on-location and establishing shots.
LOVE BOAT/MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW REUNION
Captain Stubing:Welcome aboard,I'm Captain Stubing.
Ted Baxter:Heyyy,Captain Stubing,you look familiar. Where have I seen you before?
Georgette:Ohh Teddy,it's MURRAY--from the newsroom in Minneapolis!
Sue Ann Nivens:Only one way to find out(takes Stubing's hat off).Bald as a watermelon--it's Murray all right.
Stubing/Murray:Nice to see you too,Sue Ann. What poor palooka is paying for your cruise?
Lou Grant:Hi,Murray--what are YOU doing here?
Stubing/Murray:Lou?You...and Sue Ann--again?
Lou:Yeahhh. The producers of "Love Boat" thought it'd be "cute" to have all of us together again.
Ted:I haven't seen MARY yet--she must think she's too big a star to do a reunion show on such a great program like "The Love Boat".
Stubing/Murray:"Great program?" It's a paycheck,Ted,that's all. It was either this or gay porn.
Ted:You're right,Murr--that's why I chose to do "Too Close for Comfort".
Lou:And I did a season of "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill" in 1990.
Stubing/Murray:Well,have a good voyage everyone. Welcome to "The Love Boat".(whispers) Doc,how about a prescription of dramamine?
Doc(Bernie Kopell):Sea sick,Merrill?
Stubing/Murray:Something like that--Ted Baxter sick.
(Mary walks onboard)
Stubing/Murray:Hi Mary,you MADE IT to "The Love Boat".
Mary:Well it was either this or...
Stubing/Murray:Right--see you later--at the Captain's table for dinner.
Mary:Right Murray--I mean,CAPTAIN Murray.
END
--GRA
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